Publisher: Dial Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/29/2008
ISBN-13: 9780385340991
ISBN-10: 0385340990

In 1946, as England emerges from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. 75,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2007
ISBN-13: 9781416540748
ISBN-10: 1416540741

When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Random House
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/29/2006
ISBN-13: 9781400065202
ISBN-10: 1400065208

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic, setting up guards to prevent anyone from coming in or out, but a violent confrontation with a tired, hungry, and cold soldier will have devastating repercussions for the entire town. 125,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Vintage International
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/28/2007
ISBN-13: 9780307387899
ISBN-10: 0307387895

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

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Publisher: Harvest
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780156027328
ISBN-10: 0156027321

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

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Publisher: Vintage International
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/14/2006
ISBN-13: 9781400078776
ISBN-10: 1400078776

A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1995
ISBN-13: 9780345342966
ISBN-10: 0345342968

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling novel of a frightening near-future world. Reissue.

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Publisher: Vintage Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780679774020
ISBN-10: 0679774025

In a critically acclaimed memoir, a correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hill country, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from the poverty and ignorance of life. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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Publisher: Random House Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/24/2009
ISBN-13: 9780307337177
ISBN-10: 0307337170

Details the 1814 Congress of Vienna, offering portraits of the participants and discussing the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, and bitter rivalries that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe. Reprint.

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/08/2008
ISBN-13: 9780312380397
ISBN-10: 0312380399

Documents historical efforts to claim the lost treasures of sunken ships, from Captain William Phips's 1687 discovery of a cache of Spanish galleons to the numerous dangerous quests of fortune hunters who have lost their lives. 15,000 first printing.

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Publisher: Penguin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/30/2007
ISBN-13: 9780143038252
ISBN-10: 0143038257

Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would particularly benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions, an endeavor for which his life has been repeatedly threatened. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780374525644
ISBN-10: 0374525641

A tragic tale of cultural differences chronicles the fight over the proper care of an epilectic Hmong child between a California medical center and her tradition-minded Laotian refugee family. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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